THE

COMMON LAW PROCEDURE ACT,

1854.

Introduction.

THE "Common Law Procedure Act, 1854," which may be thus cited in any instrument, document, or proceeding (s. 106),* is entitled "An Act for the further Amendment of the "Process, Practice, and Mode of Pleading in "and enlarging the Jurisdiction of the Superior "Courts of Common Law at Westminster, and "of the Superior Courts of Common Law of the "Counties Palatine of Lancaster and Durham :" and its Provisions come into operation on the Twenty-fourth Day of October One thousand eight hundred and fifty-four (s. 104).

The statute, however, not only enlarges the jurisdiction of the Superior Courts of Common Law, but introduces several most important changes in the law of evidence; and enables judgment creditors to issue a new species of

*The references within parentheses are to the sections of the statute.

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